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Record house sales

Record Number Of Homes Sold In One Month In UK

June 2021 became the busiest month since records began, thanks to frenzied activity in the housing market before the changes to the stamp duty rules...

House Sales Are Down By 23% In 2023 Compared To 2022

House Sales Are Down By 23% In 2023 Compared To 2022

31 October 2023 – While the property market has shown a lot of resilience in the past months, it appears that high inflation and mortgage...

Rental Credit Checks

Rental Payments To Be Included In Credit Scores

More than four million people in the UK are private tenants in the rental sector. With many spending over half their salary on rent, yet...

New Rules For HMOs

New Rules On HMO Licensing Now In Effect

As of October 1st 2018, new rules are in force regarding licensing for HMO properties. HMOs, or houses in multiple occupation, will now be subject...

Rents Set To Rise 15%

RICS Survey Suggests Rents Could Rise 15% By 2023

Unless changes are made to buy-to-let market, tenants could see their rents rise by as much 15% by 2023. That’s according to a new survey...

Offshore property

Leaked Papers Reveal Extent Of UK Property Worth £4bn Held Offshore

The so-called Pandora Papers constitute the largest ever cache of leaked data to expose offshore tax haven secrecy involving world leaders, monarchs, oligarchs and tycoons....

Landlord Rental Income Rises

Buy-To-Let Landlords See Rental Income Rise 15% Year-On-Year

Data from HMRC analysed by London lettings agency ludlowthompson has shown that rental income for buy to let landlords jumped 15% in just one year....

Typical UK street

Mixed Views On Home Ownership

Only 63% of people who do not own a property would like to buy a home of their own, according to new research conducted by...

UK Rents Rise Despite Brexit Uncertainty

Landlords See Rents Rise Despite Brexit Uncertainty

There’s good news for landlords, as figures show that rents in the UK’s private rental sector rose by 0.97% in the year between November 2017...

First Time Buyers High

First-Time Buyers Become Largest Group Of Home Buyers

The latest research conducted by Zoopla has found that first-time buyers (FTBs) have become the largest group of home buyers in 2019. Zoopla analysed the...

Detached houses

Time Taken To Sell A House in 2019

The best and worst locations for selling homes in the UK during 2019 have been analysed in the latest data from estate agent comparison site...

Stamp Duty Cut For First-Time Buyers

Stamp Duty Cut ‘Ineffective’ According To Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

When the Government announced that stamp duty would be cut for first-time buyers buying a home for up to £300,000 last year, estate agents across...

Cash Property Buyers

Cash Property Buyers Hit A 10-Year Low

The number of cash investors and buyers for a property has hit a record 10-year low with growing numbers apparently heading for the exit. The...

Nice house

UK Property Sales Hit 16-Year High As House Prices Take Off

House sales in the UK reached a record high in March as buyers and sellers sought to complete property transactions before the end of the...

New homes

2m New Homeowners Pledge Bemuses Lenders

Boris Johnson’s conference promise to create two million new homeowners with 95pc loans leaves the the mortgage industry bemused as to how it can be...

Estate Agent Dual Fees

Ombudsman To Issue Guidance Over Agents’ Dual Fees

With growing numbers of home sellers complaining to The Property Ombudsman (TPO) over dual fees means there will be new guidance issued to estate agents...

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